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Actually it is from the cellar of the Castle ruins at Gleichen, in Thüringen, Germany, but "Dungeon" sounds better in a title. This castle was first documented in 1089!
Actually managed a couple of hours last thursday, incredibly lucky enough to catch one these Scottish beauties.
M25 near Swanley, Kent, UK
Actually four, if you count the retired Midway carrier in the foreground. This is extremely rare and I noticed this last weekend. Two are already gone.
I actually posted a picture of the Pont Royal in 2009 during the first round, but it was zoomed in. I took this picture five minutes earlier (must have been a slow boat). Back in 2009, I probably didn't notice Notre-Dame de Paris in the background, with its spire still intact.
This could be another game of "How many bridges do you see in this picture?"
If you're just finding my photostream now, you might think that I post a disproportionate number of bridge pictures. I don't think I do. It just happens to be that I started posting pics from my London 2020 trip in September, and then in January I also started posting B-side pictures from my Paris 2008 trip, and both cities have a lot of bridges along their famous rivers.
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Actually it's more of a service alley, but close enough.
Chelsea/Charlie will be joining in the February ADAD challenge.
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A Doll A Day
February 1, 2017
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Jachenau is actually not only a little village but a valley between Lenggries and Lake Walchensee. It's like a time capsule - only a one hour drive from Munich. Well worth a visit. Great for hiking. Map: flickr.com/photos/fabianmohr/327036934/map/
Actually I planed to take a picture of the milky-way that night. As a matter of fact, the moon was right in front of it – so it wasn't possible to get the milky way on the camera. I then turned around and got that beautiful old tree in fron of the lens… via 500px ift.tt/2cjLFcw
Actually Malaga was anything but mono. Beautiful colours all around. A lovely city. Sorry but I don't know the name of the square. I think the image has a slightly old fashioned air to it. Like it's been photographed in the 50's tho I can't take any credit for that.
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Actually, it was more like a starling 'free for all'! - There's never a shortage of action when the starlings are around!!
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I'm quite pleased with this one and feel really lucky to have gotten it! : )
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Actually a small, bush-like dogwood, with rare yellow flowers, that blooms in early Spring: "Cornus Mas." Thank you to the Central Park Conservancy, for the plant identification.
I hung around for awhile, waiting for the hordes of people to pass so I could get a photo of this blooming tree. Two Japanese men, also taking photos, asked me when everything else would start to bloom, as they were only going to be in New York for two weeks. I told them it all depended on the weather. But they were out of luck this year; we had snow the next day, and the cold weather lingered through April.
Central Park, looking south from just off Fifth Avenue and Central Park South, NYC -- April 1, 2018
Actually, the sky, etc., are reflections in the glass doors of our town hall. The lights were on the hallway ceiling inside. -- A more recent thought: a new kind of tompe l'oeil.
Actually it was bathing and shaking off the water. But I liked how this pose looks like a dance move. It was very foggy with smoke in the atmosphere so I ended up with a very warm cast to the image. I did tone it down some but decided to leave some of the warmth in since those were the conditions at the time.
Actually a false-colour infrared shot of two of the futuristic-looking spherical trailer-pods that, for some time now, have stood on Roker sea front in Sunderland. I have never taken much interest in how they are used, to be honest, but I did notice today that refreshments are on sale from one of them.
Actually, the name of the game is "Kendama". Kendamakeh is just Kendama with bokeh applied. =)
Kendama (sword and ball) is a traditional Japanese skill toy. The ken has three cups and a spike which fits into the hole in the ball. The kendama is a variant of the classic cup-and-ball game, and the Hispanic world toy known as boliche or balero.
Here, an unidentified man spends an unusually warm January afternoon listening to music while playing with a Kendama toy in Director Park, located in Downtown Portland, Oregon. The unexpected mild conditions persuaded many to take advantage of what could be a final opportunity for outdoor activity before winter weather hits the city.
Actually, the tide will go out further and when it comes in the water rises to the grassy top of the island.
Burntcoat Head Park is home of the world`s highest recorded tides. 160 billion tones of water flow daily into the basin every 13 hours which is more than the combined flow of the world’s freshwater rivers!
Discover small species of ocean life in pools of ocean water left behind when the tides are out and walk for miles on the ocean floor.
On site is a beautiful lighthouse and 3-acre park. You will also find, walking trails and a scenic view of the Cobequid Bay offering spectacular sunset displays in the evening.
The replica lighthouse contains an interpretive centre about the Fundy tides, old lighthouses, and the history of the area.
www.novascotia.com/see-do/outdoor-activities/burntcoat-he...
Well, actually into the yellow, because the roof ceiling these stairs lead to isn't blue. And the wooden stairs aren't either. The original paint is a rather unattractive grey, which lent itself to some nice colour sliding possibilities (so technically, it's a "Monday slider"). I also have a rose version, and even a grungy look is possible with these rustic stairs, which to me also look a little "crunchy".
This staircase can be found in the Hackescher Markt area of Berlin's Mitte district. I don't recall the exact location because we spontaneously looked into the hallways of the old buildings there. Something I'd never do with residential houses, but in this tourist area, many of the buildings are housing offices and shops.
This is also my Macro Monday replacement photo. I wanted to participate in "Liquid", but a lot was going on last week, so unfortunately, I couldn't fit in a photo session.
Wishing you a nice week ahead, dear Flickr friends!
This is actually on a windy day in rain shot from inside the window and through the blinds with a 300mm zoom that almost made them disappear due to focus. I should add the shutter speed is 1/160 of a sec but the blur is still there naturally coz of field of view and the exaggerated effect due to tight shot and motion.
To see the blinds and where it was shot from click here;
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Actually he was pretty well hidden but I spotted him. I'm going to miss these guys when they go into hibernation soon. With their appetite for mosquitoes, they are welcome anytime.
Green Tree Frog (Hyla cinerea)
My photos can also be found at kapturedbykala.com
Actually, I was falling from the top.
Taken by my classmate Larry Zhou: flickr.com/photos/46284480@N00/
This shot is a little misleading, and no where near as old as it appears. What could be a shot out of the 1960's, is actually the engineer of a Wisconsin Great Northern train in the yard at Spooner, WI back in 2004
Growing up, I didn't have much of a friendship with the prince in the neighboring kingdom of the Ravens. It wasn't that I didn't like him. He actually had a very likeable personality and we were amiable acquaintances. We just didn't run the same friendship circles despite being around the same age. I remember being brought along to visit his family when I was a small child and he was just a toddler. He hadn't been much of a playmate back then since he spent most of our visit napping or clinging to his mother. Then about a year or two later at another formal event there was a masquerade at his family's castle. I remember he was dressed in a full dragon costume and ran around the whole ball, stealing the show as he was fawned over by everyone. The little brat had even accidentally whacked me right in the family jewels with that swinging tail of his! It had been painful and embarrassing and I admit for a short time, I didn't like him very much.
Now several years later, that young prince was to be crowned King and there was to be a Presentation in his honor as well; not just any celebratory ball. That meant he was presenting and putting himself out there to be courted which made this coronation even bigger! Being a prince of the Lion Queendom, myself, and third in line for the throne, I had an obligation to attend along with my family.
On that day, all the royal families, their bannerman, and all the citizens who could gather to the castle welcomed the newest King! I was seated with my Queen and our family, waiting on the ceremony to begin. Soon, the King of the Ravens and the High Elder approached the dais and the ceremony began. The double doors opened and the prince came forward dressed in the colors of his house and looking more grown up than I'd ever seen him before. I felt something inside me stir as he passed by, and I caught myself thinking he looked quite handsome and that he'd really grown into himself.
It had been a spectacular ceremony and as I watched him kneeling before the High Elder to accept his crown, I felt pride for him. He'd come a long way and from my understanding, he was loved and respected by the people of his Kingdom. The people were very happy to have their prince ascend to the throne.
Finally, the crown was placed upon the prince's head and he rose as a king! As he turned to face the cheering crowd, I was suddenly hit harder in the gut with how much the young man had grown. He wasn't just handsome. He was stunning and beautiful and that smile shined so bright as the High Elder declared him King! I applauded along with everyone, smiling and happy for him. As he cast his gaze over the cheering crowd, his eyes suddenly met mine. I felt like I couldn't look away and for a moment, neither could he. I caught the tiny blush that touched his cheeks as he smiled more before looking away with a touch of shyness. At that second I felt as if a zap of electricity hit me in the chest; like lightning but somehow it felt like the sweetest pain in the world. I'd been attracted to people before but not like this. Something told me this was special. I hadn't come with the intention on courting and wooing this man, but if just a glance was that electrifying? Heh, I'd be an idiot not to try. One thing I knew for certain? I was going to ask him for a dance.
It didn't take very long and soon everything was set up for the new king's Presentation. The tables were spread out and chairs rearranged and the dance floor was sectioned off. There were some musicians off to the side finishing setting up as a buffet of delicious food was served up. But my focus was on the young man who was standing with his family and receiving many hugs and congratulations from his loved ones.
Traditionally, Presentations begin with the young man or woman presenting themselves to the single royals and nobles with some sort of demonstration that represents themselves. Many people resort to singing but some people play instruments or can paint or recite poetry. This new King, however, was known for being a phenomenal dancer. So when it was time for the Presentation to start, I was not surprised to watch as he took his mother's hand and guided her to the center of the dance floor. The music began playing a upbeat ballroom waltz. Together, mother and son moved across the dance floor flawlessly. It was clear to see they had amazing dancing chemistry! The King moved in a way that showed off his mother's ability to move yet still managed to shine all on his own.
As they danced, my eyes followed how the young King moved, how his body dipped and shifted with each step. It was as if I had a small beast inside me, crouched and patiently waiting for the opportune moment; a predator stalking its prey.
Once their dance ended, his mother hugged him tightly and kissed his forehead. The pride and joy on her face was so beautifully palpable. After a moment, she stepped back and curtsied to her son before taking her leave. It would have been easy to step up at that moment and claim the first dance. However, I chose to wait. I watched as the new object of my affection received the attention of a young Lord and was asked for a dance.
Even as I was joined by some of my own friends a short time later, I let them talk amongst themselves. I watched as the young King danced with many young ladies and a few young men. It was clear he was the best dancer out there but he always smiled and had a kind word or two for his dance partners whether he led or let himself be led. I studied his likes and dislikes by how he reacted to his dance partners. He got along with everyone but I could tell he wasn't really connecting with anyone. Remembering that moment after his ascension and how our gaze met, I could feel the beast within my chest purring with anticipation.
It was about an hour into the Presentation when the King took some time to walk to the buffet and refreshment table. While he was there, he was congratulated by a few friends, all of them laughing and smiling. But even as he joined in the conversation, I noticed his gaze wandering my direction before he caught himself, quickly turning his attention back to his friends. After catching him doing it again a few minutes later, I decided it was time for me to make my move. I waited until he was finishing up his punch when I began to make my way over.
I drew upon all the confidence I could muster as I stepped up behind the handsome man I'd found myself so suddenly drawn to. Was this even normal? It felt as powerful as lightning! As he stepped away from the refreshment table, I licked my lips and smiled warmly before clearing my throat to gain his attention. Hearing me, he began to turn to see who was requesting his attention. As soon as he laid eyes on me, they lit up and the sweetest smile spread across his lips. I smiled more as my gaze met his. Once again, that warmth spread from deep within my chest and my inner beast purred happily.
"Good evening, Your Majesty. Would you do me the honor of joining me for the next dance?" I asked, my gaze never wavering from his even as I bowed before him. I extended my hand in offering and he didn't hesitate to extend his hand to take mine. A soft chuckle escaped him as he responded, "I thought you'd never ask." As soon as our fingers touched, I drew him closer and gazed into his eyes with a smile as he lifted his gaze to meet mine. "Make me move, Lion," he urged me, a hint of challenge in his gaze. A chuckle rumbled deep in my chest as my hand took his waist and I murmured, "With pleasure, Raven."
Now that he was in my arms, I had every intention of keeping him there. And the way he was looking at me, I knew he had every intention of letting me.
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Thank you to Vin Raven-Mysterious/Be My Mannequin? Pose Store for posing with me! Be sure to check out his phenomenal photography in People In Photo!
Actually, this is an inofficial but well-known place, a little bit out of the way, so there is more garbage than usual.
This actually bloomed in my yard, an absolute miracle in itself!
Of course, it was pink at the time ;)
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It's actually colorful, but here it might be a bit over saturated. Believe me it stinks like hell! just like H2S or rotten eggs... you can't notice even if someone fart directly on your face..yuck. I still remember how hard it was to breath.
"The vivid colors in the spring are the result of pigmented bacteria in the microbial mats that grow around the edges of the mineral-rich water. The bacteria produce colors ranging from green to red; the amount of color in the microbial mats depends on the ratio of chlorophyll to carotenoids and on the temperature of the water which favors one bacterium over another. In the summer, the mats tend to be orange and red, whereas in the winter the mats are usually dark green. The center of the pool is sterile due to extreme heat." - Wikipedia
Actually taken a few minutes before the previous, wider shot. As you can see the sunlight was shining on more of the tower, bathing it in that gorgeous golden glow.
Sir Sandford Fleming Park is a 95-acre (38 ha) Canadian urban park located in the community of Jollimore in Halifax Regional Municipality. It is also known as Dingle Park which means wooded valley.
The park was donated to the people of Halifax by Sir Sandford Fleming. The centrepiece of the park is an impressive tower that commemorates Nova Scotia's achievement of representative government in 1758.
Completed between 1908 and 1912, the Memorial Tower was erected during the same period of building other commemorative towers in the British Commonwealth, notably Cabot Tower in Bristol, England (1898) and Cabot Tower in St. John's (1900).
This is actually a quick test for my two new lomo 3.7 lmicroscope enses. Real intention was to compare them for defects. Turned out both are about the same condition. This is one of them
Actually it's out-of-date golden syrup that I found in the back of the cupboard.
It didn't quite work as I envisaged but it'll do for today.
'x' = Still Life
Actually he was chasing sparrows through the lemon tree. He's brave, that tree has BIG needles on it.
First attempt at levitation, kinda satisfied with the result. Actually I wanted to make it look as if the teddy draged me to the ground but he just seems to happily run over the floor.
Actually it's grey and wet outside but this dress is so bright and yellow it's almost guaranteed to make any day feel like it's a Sun-Shiny day..!!
Have a Bright and Beautiful weekend my dear friends, followers and viewers..😘💋
Actually, it's still the USC med school. I was helping out at a different part of the campus. It wasn't hard, but all of us who worked those four hours got a free lunch out of it as well.
This tree was to my right. I don't know if I had photographed it before, but if I had it was during the fall of many years before. Now it was showing its spring glory. And it was (finally!) a clear, warm day as well.
We've had a large amount of Cranes in Lille Vildmose this year. They are regular guest, but this year I actually spotted close to 50 in one spot. It is an impressive sight to see a flock of these giant birds flight fly close above you.
I actually finished this build around the beginning of June, but haven't gotten around to posting it until now. This was just a build for fun to mess around with the dark blue/white colorscheme and to finally do something for Kaliphlin over in Guilds of Historica again. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out, though unfortunately the pictures are rather poor.
Located on the Eastern outskirts of Katoren, this monastery survived the Kaliphlin civil war better than most. A natural spring was the reason for the monastery's location, and the spring continues to provide fresh water for all the inhabitants, as well as make the surrounding area very lush compared to much of the Kaliphlin landscape.
This is a photo of a drop of milk (actually half & half) splashing into food coloring. It took a while to figure out how to do splash photos, so thought I would share how it was done.
The photo was taken in total darkness (basement), with light from 2 Speedlite flashes fired remotely about 6-8 inches from the drops. Flash setting was using Manual mode at 1/16 power.
The surface is a piece of glass that I painted black and placed on a table. Black foam board sheets were placed on the back and sides of the work area. The milk drops were released from an eyedropper mounted above the black glass.
Use manual focus, so first you need to get a good focus. I did this by releasing a single drop from the eye dropper, then placed a flat head screw at the front of the drop, and used that to get my focus. Once you get the focus right, you shouldn't have to do this step again unless you move something.
Carefully add a couple other milk drops to the one that has splashed (use a different eye dropper, not the one that is mounted). Add a drop or two of food color. Now comes the hard part. With one hand, release one drop from the eye dropper, and with the other hand, release the shutter using a remote. At first I was able to capture a successful splash only about one out of 50 shots, but now I can do it about one out of 3. At the beginning, it's sometimes difficult to determine whether you are pressing the remote button too soon or too late.
You have to clean up the drops occasionally, as they get muddled. Re-apply a few drops of fresh milk and food color.
Sometimes the splashes are more crown shaped than the one shown above. Other times they are entirely small droplets. All make interesting photos.
A few hints:
- You need enough light to see the drop that you are releasing from the dropper. Since it was totally dark, I used one of those red light flashlights attached to an extra tripod. The red light was aimed directly at the dropper, trying to minimize the light falling at the splash surface. If you don't have one of those lights, they are also helpful when doing night photography. White light may give you too much ambient light.
- As mentioned, I used half & half (half milk and half cream). Skim milk is too thin. I didn't try whole milk, but that may be too thin as well. I got good results with the half & half, so did not try whole cream. That may be too thick.
- Try different food color drops. If using multiple colors together, you may want to try it without placing the drops on top of each other. Try the standard liquid food coloring to begin. It normally comes in red, blue, green, and yellow. The Liqua-Gel drops come in more colors, but are quite difficult to work with because they are thicker.
- The distance from the dropper to the surface is a factor in the size of the splash. It was about 18 inches in my setup.
- High speed photography requires low flash power. Low flash power gives fast flash duration, which is what you want (think of a fast flash duration, when applied to high-speed photography, as somewhat analogous to a fast shutter speed). Try 1/16 flash power to start. If you need more light, try 1/8. Powers of anything more than that will usually be too high.
- Because you are using low flash power, you are minimizing the actual amount of light produced, so therefore need the flash units to be close to the splash.
- You want the splash to be illuminated only by the flash, not from any ambient light. I did this in the basement and at night.
- If you are not getting enough light at 1/16 flash power, it could be because of the previous 2 bullets, and could also be because the batteries in the flash are drained too much.
- I tried an aperture of f/16 at the beginning, and it didn't give me enough depth of field. f/22 was better, but I also moved the camera back a little from my minimum focus distance to give me a little more DOF.
- Shutter speed is the Max Sync Speed, which you can set in your flash menu settings in your camera. Note in the EXIF for this photo, that the shutter speed is 1/250. That was the Max Sync Speed for this camera (the number varies by camera). Understanding why a shutter speed this slow gives you the results needed for high-speed photography is very complex, and took me a long time to understand it.
This was supposed to be my winter photo project, but I was too anxious to wait. This was my third day working on this, and the photos got better each day. It's fun, so I'll keep at it for a while and will put up other photos later (note: I have added additional photos right before this one in my Photostream).
Actually there is, but this is the tip of the peninsula on which I live, at the end of the lone primary road and fronting the big lake on the west side. The "big" lake is just that...about 3300 sq. acres as opposed to my 75. As a result it is heavily populated by both residences and resorts, has many public access landings, and is relatively unrestricted as to use...i.e., motor size, jet skis, water skiing, snowmobiles, sea planes, etc. A different situation altogether from my cozy and highly restricted private little water.
[This is the first time I've ever put a frame on an image, but something about this one seemed to call for it. Unframed below for your comparison...]